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Norseman's knock or Norrlandsknack is a classic Swedish card game for 3 to 5 players, [1] known since the mid-1800s. It is traditionally played for money. It is traditionally played for money. The game is about winning as many tricks as possible and above all not being completely left without a trick.
Knock-out whist or knockout whist is a member of the whist family [1] known by a variety of names including trumps in Britain, reduction whist, diminishing whist (from the way one fewer card is dealt each hand) and rat. It is often simply called whist by players who are unfamiliar with the game properly called whist.
At the end of the game, the winner is decided in the same way as in the normal game of Thirty-One, although if a player has a hand of three cards of the same suit and is greater than 21, they may choose to restart the game making their hand the new face-up hand for the new game and re-dealing all hands for the other players and the face-down hand.
If the player has no cards they can play, they must instead draw a new card from the top of the stack and, in some variants, say something such as "pass", "penalty card" or knock on the table to indicate inability to play a card. [12] Rules vary widely between variants. Some common rules include:
Tonk, or tunk, [1] [2] is a matching card game, which combines features of knock rummy and conquian. [3] Tonk is a relatively fast-paced game that can be played by 2–4 players. It can be played for just points or for money wagered.
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Magician and writer John Scarne believed gin rummy to have evolved from 19th-century whiskey poker (a game similar to Commerce, with players forming poker combinations [5]) and to have been created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. [6] Card game historian David Parlett finds Scarne's ...
Rumino (also ramino or rumina) is a knock rummy card game of Italian origin for up to six people, in which players try to form sets or sequences of cards. It may possibly have been devised in America during the 1940s by Italian immigrants by adapting the game Scala Quaranta to Gin rummy.